performance offerings
“Aimee Suzara writes and performs with an unhurried beauty, lyricism, and love of words that contains all of her urgency and fierceness as a woman of color.” – Aya de Leon, poet/performer
Invite Aimee Suzara to your event, cultural center, conference, or classroom for the following:
• poetry readings or spoken word performances: sets of 15, 20, 30, or 45 minutes
• speeches, discussions and lectures on various topics, including:
- arts and activism
- arts and literacy; arts education
- the craft of poetry
- writing for the page and the stage
- the artist as spokesperson for culture
- using poetry in the classroom
- Filipino-American identity
- queer identity, gender
- women in writing
- collaborating with dance, music and theater
- environmental justice
• performance-workshops or performance-lecture combinations
• monologue excerpts from multidisciplinary play, Pagbabalik (Return)
• poetry and monologues utilizing movement, sound and gesture
• collaborative work with various artists and groups: Deep Waters Dance Theater and Amara Tabor-Smith (dance), Frances Sedayao (dance), Ron Gabriel Quesada (music)
Please inquire at booking@aimeesuzara.net for booking and rates. At least one month advance notice is required for local events, and three months for non-local events.
Selected Performances and Awards:
• Awarded Zellerbach Community Arts Grant to produce original full-length theatre production in 2006
• Theatre production, “Pagbabalik,” written, directed, and performed by Suzara, showcased at upcoming Apature and headlined at La Peña Cultural Center September 27 and October 1, 2006.
• Spoken Word included on CD Recording “Eye of the Storm” by Ella Baker Center
• Spoken Word-theatre work selected for Emerging Performance Festival, April 2006, CounterPULSE, San Francisco
• Featured poetry readings at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Mills College, Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts)
• Poetry & interviews on KPFA (Terra Verde, Apex Express, Hard Knock Radio, the Morning Show), and KQED
• Non-fiction articles published in Filipinas Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Call of Nature, Philippine News, Mabuhay News, Ang Peryodiko, and Jade Magazine
• Film, “Crizel,” shown at Lakbay Ng Pagkaalam in Asheville, North Carolina (June 2004) and Stories from the Land in Boston, Massachusetts (presented by the Asian American Workshop)
• Co-writer of book, Inheritors of the Earth: the Human Face of the Toxic Legacy
